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That cake with the chocolate shell and full of cream wasn't a cupcake. That was a Kunzl Showboat.

I knew of them and always dreamed of having one but never did. I had Lyons cupcakes though, usually chocolate, but, if I was really lucky there were orange and lemon ones too.

I find the idea of a chocolate Lyons cupcake a bit nauseating now.

Is a cup making 'kit' more than just a cake mix? :-S :-S

There was a Kunzles tearoom in Birmingham in the 1950s.
Special treat was to be taken for afternoon tea by my gran . Tea & a Kunzles cake.
Sometimes Dad would land home with a box of 4 of them as a surprise.
Personally I preferred the chocolate fudge variety which I think were made by Lyons & later taken over by Mr Kipling.
Can´t imagine what the kit consists of though.

I remember the Kunzle cakes. I loved the coffee tasting ones, I think they were a bit more expensive than most other small cakes.

I am with you Sharron, I don't think I could eat one, far too sweet for me now.

My taste buds seem to change as I get older.

They're 'today's trendy cake'............can't stand 'em m'self.


Too sickly sweet.

Too showy.

Too much hot air in them.


I agree GB.....Yuk!

Cupcakes....ewwwwwwwwwww :-D

Kunzle...yep they were the ones...yum

How to make your own Kunzl type cakes:
http://realfood.tesco.com/recipes/cakes-based-on-the-original-kunzle-cakes-214.html

You can't beat a cup cake with a nice cup of cocoa last thing at night.

Errol

Personally ...

I think is cruel to

Beat a cupcake with a cup of anything - especially last thing at night.....

:-D

Am I the only one who takes off all the icing and other rubbish and just eats the cake? I do like marzipan, though!

oh I dunno Renes - could be fun

I needed new baking things.........

asked in the shop for where I could find scone trays

What are they?

After a while.........explaining...

Oh, you mean COOKIE SHEETS!!??

:-0


gRRRRR!! No, I mean scone trays, when did we become American?

If we are talking about Fairy Cakes becoming Cup Cakes, can anyone tell me when Queen Cakes became Fairy Cakes?

Think I can answer that one - Queen cakes are fairy cakes that contain raisins (or some other sort of dried fruit)! ;-)

Errol

On reflection

It depends on the cupcake in question :-D

Thank you Geordie. I'd forgotten they used to have fruit in them.

In the paper today: Lakeland have now got tins etc for making Doctor Who cupcakes. Just thought you'd like to know that.

cupcakes are not good for you healthwise :-D ;-)

To me Cup cakes buns with piped butter cream on ( yes I can eat one ) and fairy cakes are buns with a bit cut out of the middle , then you put on a blob of butter cream with the bit you had cut out you cut in half and placed back to back on the cream to make fairy's wings thats a fairy cake :-D